Certificate Program in
Child & Adolescent Trauma Treatment

Description of the Training Program: This is a hands-on clinical skills training for working with children and adolescents who have been exposed to significant trauma or loss. This in-depth extended training will cover child trauma theory, impact of trauma and loss, therapeutic relationship, self-care for counselors/therapists, identification and assessment of traumatized kids, working with parents and other care-givers to help traumatized kids, and directly helping kids to manage their symptoms, resolve their trauma/loss memories, and prepare to cope effectively with future challenges.

Participants will first learn a foundation model and skills, and over time add advanced interventions such as motivational interviewing, anger management training, and parent training. Each of the 1-day meetings will be split between new (or review) didactic/skills material and small-group consultation focused on participants' ongoing cases. This program is designed to help participants learn and master the essential clinical skills for trauma-informed treatment with children and adolescents.

The training program involves lecture, demonstration, and in-class practice. This is an experiential training, and part of the learning is to practice the interventions with other participants. Although participants are always in charge of what they disclose, many individuals have reported that their participation led to facing personal issues.

Objectives. Participants will be able to:

• Explain how past trauma or loss can lead to ongoing problem behaviors or symptoms.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive trauma-informed treatment plan.
• Teach kids how to control their anxiety, impulsive/acting-out behavior, and other symptoms.
• Guide parents and others to help kids to be (and feel) more safe and successful.
• Help kids to face and work through their trauma/loss memories.
• Help kids and their care-givers to anticipate and prepare for future challenges.
• Problem-solve their own challenging cases, regardless of whether trauma was identified as the presenting issue.
• Provide systematic and effective trauma-informed supervision and consultation to others.

• Five days in September, 2008 Child/Adolescent Trauma Treatment intensive.
• One day per month October through December, 2008. Morning seminars will cover the material from CTI's teen Treating Problem Behaviors (MASTR) training program. Afternoons will be devoted to small-group clinical case consultation with participants' current cases.
• One day per month January through May, 2007. Morning seminars will cover advanced therapeutic interventions as well as working with families, schools, child welfare, and milieu treatment programs. Afternoons will be devoted to small-group clinical case consultation with participants' current cases.

• Receive a certificate of completion from CTI.
• Have all (12) EMDRIA CE hours needed for EMDR Certification.
• Receive 91 CEs (optional; $50 additional fee).
• Receive 5 graduate credits (optional; $75/credit additional fee).
• We are involved (with many of the leaders in the field) in developing a national trauma certification program. Completers will have met most or all requirements for this certificate as well.

• Greenfield, MA dates: Mon-Fri September 22-26, 2008; Mondays October 20, November 10, December 1, January 5, 2009, February 2, March 2, April 6, May 3.
  • Earlybird: $1,750; After June 9: $2,000; After September 1: $2,100.
  • Earlybird: $1,750; After June 9: $2,000; After September 1: $2,100. 91 CEs adds $50
• Sorry - otherwise only in-house programs are currently scheduled.
• To arrange a certificate training program for your group, contact the Child Trauma Institute.

Enrollment is limited to 24 participants..

A note about the cost of training: We are teaching advanced clinical skills and we want to make sure that you get it. For this reason, we are committed to a high instructor:participant ratio. This allows us to directly supervise each participant during the many practice exercises. We also provide each participant with text books and extensive handouts. We do our best to keep your cost down, but a high quality experience does cost more. We think it's worth it.